Mother and Child Museum on Omishima

An evocative, provocative museum of nude sculpture

Anonymous Sep 07, 2012 - 1 minutos de lectura

If young bottoms aren't your thing, you won't enjoy this place

Bad craziness as Hunter S. Thompson would say

The play of light is rather fantastic, especially in the evening

The sun beats down in summer, but I wonder what it's like in winter?

You don't have to be fully human to enjoy this

The Ken Iwata Mother and Child Museum on Omishima is a very strange art gallery. It’s a ring of whitewashed concrete open to the sky, peopled with statuary. There’s a considerable array of works involving nude women and children, most of which will be found evocative, not to say provocative. The interplay of art, light and nature makes it a fascinating place.

Anonymous @rod.walters__archived

I was born in Bristol, England, and I came to Japan in 1991 … which means I’ve lived half my life in this island nation on the other side of the world. The theme of my career in Japan has been communication. I started as an English teacher, and moved into translation as I learned Japanese....